The NFL is a business, and the league likes to promote pro football as family-friendly entertainment. That’s why it feels unseemly to announce that you’re going to try to aggravate an opposing player’s injury.

But violence is part of the game — and as we saw in Week 13, even a banged-up Stafford is miles ahead of backup Jake Rudock; it only makes sense Koetter would rather face the latter than the former.

The reality is that even if Koetter hadn’t said this to the media, he’d certainly say something like it to his players.

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